molliendae
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mollio, mollire, mollivi, mollitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
soften, mitigate, make easier; civilize, tame, enfeeble;
dat. sg. fut. pass. part.gen. sg. fut. pass. part.nom. pl. fut. pass. part.voc. pl. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...sunt, pauor et difficultas et desperatio et suspiciones; mollienda itaque fouendaque talia ingenia et in laetitiam euocanda sunt..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...genus verecundius est fateri passis quam ausis. LXXXV. Mollienda est in plerisque aliquo colore asperitas orationis, ut Cicero..."